Overboard
['əʊvəbɔːd] or ['ovɚbɔrd]
Definition
(adv.) from on board a vessel into the water; 'they dropped their garbage overboard'.
(adv.) to extremes; 'he went overboard to please his in-laws'.
Checker: Thelma--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard.
Typist: Maura
Definition
adv. over the board or side: from on board: out of a ship.—Thrown overboard deserted discarded betrayed.
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Examples
- All hope flung overboard! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was given out that he had either thrown himself overboard or fallen overboard in the heavy weather that we were having. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Two of your infernal sailors threw me overboard. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The armament was thrown overboard and the vessel run ashore. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was a little riled, I confess, by his manner, and thought of throwing the whole thing overboard to sink or swim. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When he died they threw him overboard also, though there were those among them who wanted to keep the corpse on board. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A water party; and by some accident she was falling overboard. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Another yelp, and overboard you go. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Unless he dived overboard. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- However, when I observed that the other gondolas had sailed away, and my gondolier was preparing to go overboard, I stopped. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is just possible that this hill is Mount Ararat, and that Noah's Ark rested here, and he ate oysters and threw the shells overboard. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The officer who steered the galley gave the same account of their going overboard. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- One man went mad and leaped overboard. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The subsistence which they find there is so scanty, that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Fell overboard! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The two warders had been shot and thrown overboard, and so also had the third mate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The sailors on watch rushed to the side of the vessel, with the cry--some one gone overboard. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Chucked 'em overboard. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Waltzers spun around precariously for a matter of fifteen seconds and then went scurrying down to the rail as if they meant to go overboard. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Prendergast was like a raging devil, and he picked the soldiers up as if they had been children and threw them overboard alive or dead. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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